Community news | October 17, 2022

Please welcome our new fellow Fabian!

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Following the launch of our Fellowship Program, we are pleased to introduce our first fellow: Fabian (Github / LinkedIn) has been a longterm contributor to the django CMS project with a proven track record. He will spend the next months working diligently on the success of django CMS. As part of his fellowship role, Fabian will mostly focus on the following topics:

  • Enabling and facilitating code contributions (i.e. Pull Requests)
  • Supporting the onboarding of new contributors
  • django-cms and core packages release management
  • management of github tickets
  • Support release of v4
  • Handling security reports & CI/DC development

Fabian, django CMS Fellow

I am looking forward to strengthen the django CMS community, welcoming new active collaborators, and supporting existing collaborators. Please contact me on slack. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Mario, President of the django CMS Association

We are very happy to appoint Fabian as the first django CMS fellow. As a distinguished member of the django CMS community he has already a proven track record with django CMS.

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